Rijnsburg

Rijnsburg: On May 10, 1940, nine-year-old Case awoke to sounds of gunshots and aircraft overhead. Black figures with white plumes above them were dropping from airplanes; the sky over Rijnsburg was filled with enemy paratroopers. Five years of Nazi occupation followed. More Related to this Story, according to Globe and Mail. Although born into the Great Depression, followed by the privations of the Second World War, Case had a resilient spirit and a lust for life. The fifth of 12 children, he was apprenticed to a carpenter at age 12. Bombing disrupted his education but he was enterprising, bright and precise, and proved well suited to his craft and Husband, father, great-grandfather, old-world craftsman. Born on Nov. 11, 1930, in Rijnsburg, the Netherlands; died on March 12, 2014, in Norval, Ont., of cancer, aged 83. Submit a Lives Lived column (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.